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Wesley Yang

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16 Jun

She excoriates the hateful thing and the people who are its vectors. In passing, she reminds us of a truth that is everywhere being suppressed by power-seeking connivers chimamanda.com

She responds here as a human being free to respond as a human being responds

The question that is not asked here but that others may ask on her behalf: “What was my own role in creating the constituency that turned on me and whom I have learned to deplore?”

From a 2018 New Yorker profile of her:

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

15 Jun

The claim that racism may be baked into ostensibly neutral institutions is reasonable; the dogmatic insistence that the mere existence of disparate outcomes proves the existence of racism has been unavoidable in practice.

So, creating a standard of "proper grooming" normed to white hair types, for instance, that necessarily rules out the kind of hair black people naturally have is an example of the appropriate application of a CRT framework.

Saying that disparities in outcomes on standardized testing means standardized tests are racist is an example of the inappropriate application of the CRT framework.

But on the basis of it, standardized tests are being removed in California and elsewhere.

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

15 Jun

Really interesting case that after the street and ideological frenzy of 2020 and the ensuing murder spike, conservative black machine identity politics may beat back the woke rossbarkan.substack.com/p/eric-adams-a…

Living in Fort Lee probably increases his appeal to Asians

The piece goes on to show how his appeal to identity politics on rent stabilization is a deeply pernicious manipulation in the service of billionaire landlords

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

13 Jun

The weird irony is that the “whiteness” approach to American history and society, which definitely was once true, became mainstream at precisely the moment when it is provable at a glance that it is no longer true

This, by the way, is why what feels like a weird non-sequitur in NHJ’s 1619 essay, where she takes a shot at the litigants in the Harvard Asian American discrimination lawsuit, is actually at the very center of that project’s concerns.

Students activists at Cornell and Stanford called for tracking of the ancestral American formerly enslaved population at the schools and for set asides specifically targeted for them distinct from black immigrants who tend to take up a large share of diversity admits

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

12 Jun

When I say that wokeness moves from the pursuit of justice to the redistribution of injustice, one of the things I mean is that where it has succeeded best is in making it as tense and uncomfortable to be a white man in an office as it once was to be a minority or woman

It has managed to do this without making anyone else more comfortable. But by leveling the discomfort level between groups it has created a kind of equality.

Some truly wonderful white men in this thread

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

12 Jun

The Federal Reserve issued guidance on bias free language that includes replacing singular generic pronouns “he,” “she,” “his”, “hers” with “they,” “their,” and “theirs....” foxnews.com/politics/feder…

It’s because of the incredibly rapid uptake and institutionalization of ideas that few had heard of just a few years ago that I think widespread adoption of politicized new identities within certain classes is likely

The pace of change is drastically different than anything any of us know. We cannot rely existing precedent to serve as a guide. Stable categories since the childhood his humanity evanesce in 9 months

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